[Elizabeth]

In another thread somewhere on this board, I was asked how one can recognize wisdom. I tried to throw the ball back by stating that an example would be to not do someone's thinking for him when the goal was to encourage thinking, but the ball got thrown back to me...and here we go. I really don't like coming on to a new board and coming off like a know-it-all either, so I am only going to give this ball a little nudge in the right direction, and I expect all of us to contribute until we get the whole picture.

(working backwards) To recognize wisdom, we would have to know what effects wisdom has on what we see - but before that, we would have to know what wisdom is. So let's start there - What is wisdom?

I believe that wisdom involves knowing the right thing to do and doing that, but equally knowing what not to do, and not doing that. I notice a 22 page thread on what is truth and how can we know it - so I will be gone awhile as I absorb that thread. It should be quite pertinant here because the truth is fundamental to what is right and wrong... so perhaps some of you could relate truth to wisdom.